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Ideas about modern issues from an Islamic perspective. Those posts which were written with the help of GenAI have been spun off into a separate blog as have the posts which contained a semantic field analysis of the Qur'an.

The pinned entries in this blog are longer and articles and unpinned articles are much shorter and the latter may likely be works in progress. The longer articles are followed by a ChatGPT critique to help identify areas for future improvement.

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Rationality

Doing your own 'research'

Note: I'll be updating the initial entry with additional points over time, as discussions elsewhere on Shiachat help me to flesh out the original arguments.   Summary In this essay I discuss why the theory behind 'Do your own research' (DYOR) does not live up to reality and the negative consequences that this can have for those who follow it. What I will also do is to examine how the whole notion of informed decision making fits within a broader ideological framework and why
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Rationality

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Freewill, viruses & opportunities

Whether Covid-19 is a naturally occurring virus or whether as some claim (unconvincingly, so far) it is a bioweapon, in my opinion its spread is the result of free will [15]. If it is naturally occurring, then it was human actions that led to its migration from animals to humans. We know that some viruses can do this and we have had previous experience with ones (e.g. SARS) that have created far less havoc [1]. By the same measure this one could be seen to be a dry run for worse epidemics to com
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Rationality

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Scientific theory vs. unscientific utility

Edited 1st July 2024 to improve clarity. Edited 20th July 2024 to include a more detailed reference to face validity. Added reference to Lindt 27th August 2024.   Summary Just because something is not created via the scientific method, does not mean it can't be useful - implications about how we think about religious precepts. Serendipity (pot luck) I have previously noted how, in some fields of human endeavour, the scientific approach is held to be the ideal. In reality
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Rationality

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The temptation of trust

Trust is generally considered a good thing. One basis for building trust is when someone behaves well, fulfills the promises that they have made and demonstrates to trustees that they are people capable of being trusted. In this way trust as an asset develops when someone or an entity such as an organisation develops a track record of trustworthy behaviour. Such trustworthy behaviour usually requires the person or organisation not to have abused the trust that others have placed in them, mo
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Rationality

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